BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) announced today that Atticus Ross will be honored as a BMI Icon at the 41st Annual BMI Film, TV and Visual Media Awards on May 14 in Beverly Hills, CA. The Academy Award- & Grammy Award- winning composer will be receiving this honor for his outstanding body of work across film and television. Ross is best known for his collaborations with Trent Reznor and their scores on such features as The Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Challengers, Gone Girl, Soul, Mank, Bones & All, Waves, Empire of Light & Queer and the TV shows Watchmen (for which they received an Emmy Award) and the Vietnam War. Alongside his brother Leopold Ross and wife Claudia Sarne, he has also composed the scores for the movies The Book of Eli and Triple 9, an episode of Black Mirror, the docuseries Dear Mama, among other projects. Most recently, Ross also co-scored FX’s Shōgun alongside Leopold and co-composer Nick Chuba and received two more Emmy nominations and a Grammy nomination. He is also key member of the band Nine Inch Nails, joining in 2016 as the band’s sole official member alongside founder Trent Reznor, and is currently working on Disney’s upcoming Tron: Ares, the band’s first score under the Nine Inch Nails moniker.
The ceremony will also salute the composers of the previous year’s top-grossing films, top-rated primetime network television series, and highest-ranking cable and streamed media programs. The evening will be hosted by BMI President and CEO Mike O’Neill and BMI Vice President, Creative, Film, TV & Visual Media, Tracy McKnight. Ross joins a prestigious list of previous BMI Icon Award recipients including John Williams, Thomas Newman, James Newton Howard, Alan Silvestri, Rachel Portman, Alexandre Desplat, Terence Blanchard, Harry Gregson-Williams, Mychael Danna, Brian Tyler, Ramin Djawadi, Christopher Lennertz, among others.
